the world at l rge.
A REVIEW OF THB WEEK'S
DOINGS.
Three young men were drowned in
the Mississippi river at Red Wing,
Minn.
John S. Allen, son of the millionaire
sienmship man, and Mrs. R. Y. Heb
den, the wife of a Montreal banker,
have eloped.
Fire at Pittsburg destroyed property
to the value of $40/00; fully insured.
Dr. Donovan of Pontiac, 111., was
drowned in the Vermilion river.
Mrs. William -Nors worthy left her
home in Dixon, 111., and no trace of her
has been found. She had but recently
returned from the Elgin insane asy
lum.
Senator Dide, a French Protestant
clergyman, states that he believes it
would be to the benefit of the working
people to have the world’s fair opened
on Sunday.
Minister Lincoln has offered a re
ward for the arrest of “Bunco”
O’Brien.
French Anarchists and Communists
have made threatening demonstra
tions.
No definite action on the silver ques
tion may take place until after the
Chicago convention.
Bob Floyd, the last of the Florida ex
press robbers, has been captured. He
made a confession.
Boring for gas at Champaign has
ceased, as a ve.in of salt water was
struck at a depth of 1,800 feet.
The Toledo-Fort Wayne ball game at
the former city was stopped by the po
lice Sunday and the players all placed
under arrest.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers has granted Chief P. M* Arthur
six months leave of absence with full
pay.
Spaniards are advocating a close al- ;
liance of their kingdom with the
United States and the Spanish-Ameri
can republics,
Mrs. John Bunn, of Arrowsmith,
near Blromington, 111., took a dose of
corrosive sublimate and died. She
was insane.
German sugar manufacturers threat
en to combine and to establish a sugar
refinery in San Francisco for the pur
pose of fighting the trust.
Cincinnati’s May musical festival has
closed and the directory are highly
pleased with the result from a finan
cial standpoint.
Further details of the ravages of the
cyclones at Wellington and Harper
sliow that the destruction of pioperty
was under-estimated.
Sanitary experts have pronounced
cite ventilation of the Capitol at Wash
ngton as nearly perfect, but its plumb
ug is extremely defective.
There is some doubt as to the au
lienticity of the report that the Rev.
iheldon Jackson, commissioner of
education for Alaska, was murdered.
Peruvian papers have spoken in the
cindest way of the world’s fair and
every effort will be made to have a fine
lisplay from the land of the Incas.
Suit has been filed in the Federal
eourt to recover property, originally
iled upon with a soldiers’ warrant,
ituated in the heart of St. Paul, and
'alued at $14 000,000.
Gen. John Ulrich Heidler commsn- I
ler-in-cliief of the Catholic Knights of
it. John of Ohio died at Dayton, Ohio,
le was 60 years old.
Lord Lansdowne may resign as Gov
ernor General of India.
Salisbury, it is reported, is to be of
ered a dukedom by the Queen.
Aurora will take Peoria’s place in
he IUinois-Iowa league.
Harvard defeated the University of
Michigan ball team by a score of 4 to 3.
The Board of Trade of Chicago has
)een petitioned to send relief to the
looded districts.
Corn planting in Iowa and wheat
seeding in the Northwest are progress^
ng rapidly.
Michigan railrods earned $8,600,378.61
n April, against $7,330,615,89 for the
same month last year.
Emery Blood was killed by an explo
sion in the Friend Paper company’s
mill, at West Carrolltoton, Ohio. The
building was wrecked.
Business failures for the week end
ing May 27 were 198, as compared with
a total of 247 for the corresponding
week last year.
James McFarland of Girard, Ohio,
was killed and Louis Jones of the same
place fatally injured in a railway col
lision on the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne
road near Niles.
A bill extending for two years
longer the aot of March 2, 1889, for the
correction of military records was
passed by the Senate.
Plans have been formulated at the
(Treat meeting to be held in London for
a commercial zollvcrein to include the
Pnitcd Kingdom, the colonies, and
India in a gigantic zollverein. with a
tariff against other nations.
Receipts of corn at Chicago are
heavy, but the deal in May is not ef
fected. Tlie price advanced from 63 to
10 cents without creating excitement,
and closed at 70 cents. The other
months closed tower at 47 cents for
June and 45 3-8 .cents for July.
Telegraph service at Wellington is so
bad’y delayed that it is almost impos
sible to get any message through. At
12:30 this afternoon a heavy hail and
rain storm passed over the section
north of Kansas City, but what dam
age was done it is impossible to learn
now. The Santa Fe has sent special
drains to Argonia and Harper with all
the help obtainable at Wichita.
The University of Michigan ball
team defeated Yale by a score of 3 to 3.
Corn planting is being pushed
rapidly, and with favorable weather
most of Nebraska farmers will finish
•his week.
V
OUR 3T. LOUIS LETTER.
Th« Nicaragua Canal—Business ruIm
paired Workingmen’! Prospect*—
Municipal Hatters
St. Louis, May 30,1893.—Great inter
est is felt in the Nicaragua Canal con
vention, which meets here the first
week in June, and for which great
preparation is being made. St Louis
having the bulk of the wholesale trade
of Mexico and Central America, is es
pecially interested in the canal project,
and that is why the city was selected
for the convention. The Canal com
pany wants a subsidy frov* the govern
ment and the convention is to meet
June 3, in order that thediational con
ventions of both political parties may be
petitioned to put in their platfovins in
dorsements of the company and its re
quests. Morris M. Estee, the Repub
lican leader of California, will be here,
and will afterwards go to Minneapolis
to urge the claim of the company be
fore that convention, and Don Dickin
son of Detroit, will do the samo thing
before the Democratic convention.
_ The fall of the water in the Missis
sippi shows how immaterial has been
the damage . to St. Louis, although
there have been scares of water and
coal famine in abundance the last few
weeks. As a matter of fact the flood
touched the real business life of the
city very lightly. People who live
out of sight of the river would have
known nothing of it but for the papers,
and to many it was simply a spectacle
to be wondered at from the big bridge
and the decks of the excursion boats.
Thousands of dollars have been raised
by the Merchants Exchange and the
newspapers to relieve the distress of
the poor river dwellers whose homes
have been inundated, and this prompt
generosity has prevented much suffer
ing. The damage to the railroads and
the levee interests has been considera
ble^ Railroad men say that the de
posit of earth left by the river when it
recedes will strengthen all the em
bankments and trestles that have been
overflowed. It is remarkable that the
only accidents that have occurred on
the St. Louis roads since the flood be
gan have been caused by the careless
ness of conductors who ran their trains
against orders, and not by the water.
The workingmen of the city will pro
fit by the overflow, for every unem
ployed laborer here will be kept busy
for weeks cleaning off the levee and
digging out the buried switches of the
manufactories along the river front.
Corrupt politicians who look on a city
as something to be taxed and plun
dered would not understand at all tlio
contest that lias been going on in the
municipal assembly of St. Louis in the
last few days. The comptroller wanted
10 cents on $100 taken from the tax
rate, believing that the city would in
crease so rapidly in the tax values dur
ing the next few years that it could
afford the reduction. The house sus
tained him but the council wanted the
surplus money applied to the payment
of the city’s debt. The comptroller
won, and the tax rate goes down. In
the discussion of the question in the as
sembly it was developed that the city
taxable property is increasing at an
average rate of $8,000,000 a year. The
increase next year, according to the
statements of Assessor O’Brien, will be
$11,000,000. The solid prosperity of the
city can better bo understood when it
is explained that this tax reduction
is undertaken while the city is build
ing a city hall to cost a million dollars
and a system of water works that will
cost over five millions.
TO PUSH THE PULMAN CASES.
Iowa Counties Have Hr ought Action
Against the Company for Taxes.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 31.—Attor
ney-General John Y. Stone has been in
the city trying to push what are known
as the Pullman cases in the Federal
court. Judge Woolson refused to con
sider them at this term. The Pullman
company five years ago enjoined the
county treasurers from collecting taxes
against their property as fixed by the
State Executive Council. Since then
taxes here have accumulated to $50,000
or more, besides interest and penalty
of 1 per cent a month. The Pennsyl
vania decision in a similar case is said
to assure a victory for the State. It is
asserted that the company has offered
to settle the taxes provived the penalty
was remitted.
MAFIA RIOTS * RECALLED.
Chief of1 Police Hennessy’s Monument
Unveiled at New Orleans.
New Orleans, La., May 31.—The
monument erected by the people of
this city to the memory of the superin
tendent of police, David C. Ilennessy,
who was assassinated by the Mafia in
October, 1890, was unveiled yesterday
at Metarle cemeteiy. Addresses were
made bv Mayor Fitzpatrick and ex
May or Shakespeare. There was an im
mense gathering present, including
government officials, city police, fire
department and Boylan’s Detective
Agency, of which the latter body Hen
nessy was general superintendent' be
fore his election as superintendent of
police. _
Struck by a Tornado.
Memphis’ Tenn., May 31.—A terrific
tornado at 10 o’clock last night swept
down the lines of the levees for miles
on both sides of the river. A great
deal of damage has been done in weak
ening levees, though up till now
no breaks have been reported. As the
river has fallen considerably here to
day it is evident that several breaks
must have occurred. The damage must
prove enormous, as everybody has had
such confidence in the strength of the
levees that no one thought of moving
away or preparing for a flood.
Reports of the Kansas Storm.
Harper,Kan., May 31.—Reportsfrom
the country through which the torna
do of Friday passed show the loss to be
greater than at first reported. The
course of the storm, as indicated by its
trail, represents an imperfect letter
“S” and swept in that form a distance
of at least fifteen miles. In Garden
Plains township two brothers were
picked up and carried a distance of 300
yards and let .down, almost side by
side. One of them was badly injured
in the fall, while the other escaped
without a scratch.
■
WASHINGTON.
hut*.
On motion of Senator Cockrell May
27 the Senate passed a bill extending the
time within which volunteers of the
late war can make application to hare
the charge of desertion removed for two
years from the 1st of July next
Senator Peffer introduced a bill
j which he asked should be laid on the
1 table for future action, to increase the
currency and provide for its circulation,
to reduce rates of interest and to pro
vide for a bureau of loans in the
Treasury department Debate on
Senator Morgan's silver resolutions
was resumed and continued until
2 o’clock when, at the suggestion
of Senator Morgan, Senator Stewart
moved that the Senate proceed to the
consideration of his free coinage of sil
ver bill. Senator Morgan demanded
the oyeas and nays, which resulted:
Yeas 23, nays 20; so the free coinage
bill was taken up. The Senate, with
out taking action, went into executive
session and soon adjourned.
The Senate calendar May 20 gave
under the head of unfinished business,
Mr. Dolph’s bill to provide for the pun
ishment of violations of treaty rights
of aliens. In the calendar the bill ap
peared in its regular number near the
end of the order of business, having
lost its place by the action of the Senate
tain king up Mr. Stewart’s bill the free
coinage of gold and silver. This bill
now occupies the point of the vantage
as the unfinished business, and that
position it may occupy for an indefi
nite period. Mr. Morgan's resolution
cn the subject of the currency stood at
the head of the subjects to be taken
up, under rule 8, so that the question
of silver has precedence over all other
subjects. When the routine business
was disposed of the calender was taken
up under rule 8, but Mr. Morgan vol
untarily abandoned his right and con
sented to have his resolution laid aside
without action. That having been
done the business in the calendar was
proceeded with in regular order under
rule 8. After a brief executive session
the Senate adjourned.
House.
The first recognition in the House
May 29 was accorded to Mr. Coombs of
New York, wlic asked unanimous con
sent for the consideration of a bill pro
viding for fhe sale of navy yard land in
Brooklyn, N. Y., at a price of not less
than $41,00(1 an acre. There was no
objection at>4 the bil} was passed.
On motion of Mr. Springer of Illinois
(who appeared in the House apparently
fully restored to health) Senate bill
was passed to establish abridge across
the Illinois river at Havana, 111.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole (Mr. Lester of Georgia in
the chair) for the further consideration
of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.
The pending amendment wee that of
fered by Mi*. Richardson of Tennessee,
limiting the number of copies of public
documents which may be printed by
heads of bureaus without express au
thorization by Congress. The amend
ment was lost by a vote of 93 to 91.
The committee then race and re
ported the bill to the House. The first
amendment voted on was that striking
out the appropriation of 9030,000 for a
new mint building at Philadelphia.
The amendment was rojocted—year 87,
nays 110. Tha remaining amendments
were adopted in bnlk and tha bill was
passed. Mr. Hateh’s 'motion to take
up the anti-option bill Was de
feated by a tie vote of 100,. to 108.
The House then went into Commit
tee of the Whole on the postoffice ap
propriation bill. Mr. Blonnt of Georgia
criticised the Postmaster-General in
establishing the free delivery system
where it should not have bean estab
lished, and of neglecting localities
which were entitled to it. The com
mittee rose and it wes agreed that the
general debate on the bill be limited
to next day's session.
The legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill was reported and
placed on calendar in the House May
31. It appropriates 921,683,752, being
91,070,286 less than estimates and a re
duction of 9458,122 from the appropria
tions for the same purposes for the
current fiscal year. The bill provides
for the abolition of the Utah commis
sion, which consisted of five mem
bers with a salary of 95,000 each.
The Speaker submitted a communi
cation from the Postmaster-General es
timating an appropriation of 9163,047
for the, postal service incident to the
World’s Columbian exposition for
the fiscal years 1893 and 1894. Mr.
Bailey objected on tha ground of
no quorum to a hill for the relief of ex
Land Register Scofield, of Delaware,
Kas. This caused Mr. Hopkins of
Illinois to criticise Mr. Bailey’s action.
Mr. Bailey retorted warmly, but the
dispute was finally settled amicably.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the postofllce appro
priation hill. The Secretary of the
Treasury sent to the House an esti
mate of 9100,000 to carry into effect the
provisions of the Chinese exclusion bill.
The select committee on the Colum
bian exposition reported favorably
through Mr. Durborow a joint resolu
tion requesting the President to issue
a proclamation recommending a due
observance in all localities of the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery
of America, Oct. 12, 1492, especially
by appropriate exercises in their
schools commemorative of the event
Notea.
The President has sent to ttre Senate
the following nominations of postmas
ters, John Ledwich, Avoca, Iowa
Mrs. A. M. Bunker, Geneva, III.; G.
W. Lott, Aitkrn, Minn.
Though badly disfigured Farmer
Hatch is still in the ring. After the
action of the party's caucus it was tc
be supposed that he would consent t<
await the disposition of the regulai
appropriation bills, which the caucus
declared should have the right of way
Not so, however; he will fight the cau
cus decision when the sundry civil bil
is cutcof the wav. He said so las'
night and repeated it thja mornjpg.
CLYCLONB IN ARKANSAS.
rha Methodlit Cliuroh and Academy at
Auvergne Blown Down.
Newpobt, Ark., May 31 —This sec
tion was visited at a o’clock last even
ing with a terrifio rain, wind and
lightning storm lasting half an
hour. In the timber region in
the White river bottom, tlio
wind and lightning played havoc.
Where the bottom ends in the hill
country southwest'of Bradford the wind
seemed .to have met in a strip about
two hundred yards wide. It took a
northeasterly course, crossing White
river, and growing in violence as it
sped along until it got to the little
town of Auvergne. There it as
sumed the force of a small tornado. It
struck the handsome new Methodist
church and leveled it to the ground.
The Auvergne academy, a beautiful
building, was also blown down.
There were six people in the academy,
but luckily they escaped unhurt, ex
cept Mrs. Peaseley, the wife of Prof.
Peaseley, the president of the college,
who is reported to have received seri
ous internal injury. The damago is
considerable._
WON BY J. B. WOOLAS
Lake View Club Boy First In at tUe
Pullman Hoad Race.
Chicago, May 31.—The Pullman road
race, the greatest cycling event in
America, was run yesterday under un
favorable circumstances. The winner*
wore: 1, J. li. Woolas, Lake View
Cycling club: 3, W. C. Anderson, Chi
cago Cycling club: 3, C. P. Fox, Lake
View Cycling club: 4, Q. Paulsen, Co
lumbia wheelmen: 5, W. J. McMahon,
Columbia wheelmen; 0, C. E. Droior,
Chicago Cycling club; 7, C. H. Ileistand,
Washington Cycling club; 8, Qua Steele,
Lake View Cycling club; 0, G. S. Olson,
Columbia wheelmen; 10, W. F. Osmun,
Cook county wheelmen. H. K. Win
ship won the time medal, his time be
ing 51 minutes and 28 seconds. II. A.
Githens gets second prize for time.
IOWA CROP REPORT.
Farmers Greatly Eucouraged by a Week
of Sunshine.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 30.—This
week’s weather crop bulletin reports
cool and dry weather with abund
ance of sunshine, giving farmers
their first favorable week for
field work; about one-half the corn
planting is done, but it is probable the
acreage will be considerably reduced
even with the most favorable conditions
in the future. Wheat and oats on up
lands are doing well, but oh flooded bot
toms and undrained fields will be very
light. Fruit is slightly injured by frost
and cold winds.
The weekly bulletins of the bureau
will hereafter be issued on Tuesday,
beginning June 7.
JUMPED FROM THE TRAIN.
Desperate Attempt of a Counterfeiter
to Escape from the Sheriff.
Indianapolis, May 8(>. — James
Walker, who has been in the Nobles
ville jail for some weeks on a charge
of counterfeiting, attempted to escape
while being brought to the city for
trial this morning. He slipped
his cuffs and jumped from the train as
it was going forty miles an hour. He
fell on his face and was badly injured.
The sheriff had another prisoner,
George Slaughter, in custody on the
same charge, and when he stopped the
train Slaughter joined in the pursuit
and capture of the other prisoner.
Walker is about 30 years old and is re
garded as desperate.
A BISHOP CHOSEN MEDIATOR.
Effort to Settle the Durham Coal Miner*'
Strike.
London, May 31.—In tesponse to the
letter of the Rt. Rev.- Brooke Foe*
Westcott, Bishop of Durham, to the
Coal Mine Ownees’ association suggest
ing that they accept the striking
miners' offer to return to work at 10
per cent, less and refer further reduc
tion to arbitration, the owners inter
ested hare accept the Bishop as media
tor. The news of this concession was
coolly received when announoed at S
meeting of the strikers Sunday, and
many of them express disbelief as to
the Bishop’s mediation effeoting a set
tlement of the difficulty.
Turned the Hose on These.
Jackson, Mich., May 31.—A war is on
here between the city of Jackson and
the Michigan Central railroad com
pany over a strip of land near the Cen
tral depot. Both parties have claimed
it for years. The railroad company is
trying to put in a spur on the land in
dispute and thus gain possession. Two
carloads of workmen from Detroit sent
to put down the track did so despite
the police. The fire department was
called out, the hose turned on the
workmen and the city’s horses pulled
up the tracks. It is said that another
attempt will be made to lay the track.
Great excitement prevails.
Honor General Hill’s Memory.
Richmond, Va., May 31.—Thousands
of strangers joined with the residents
of Richmond to-day in doing honor
to the memory of one of the heroes of
the South, Gen. Ambrose P. Hill,
whose monument and statue was un
veiled with elaborate ceremonies.
The monument stands one mile and a
half from Richmond, at the intersec
tion of Hermitage Road and Laburnam
avenue. The city was decorated in all
quarters. _
Archbishop Corrigan’s Brother Insane.
New York, May 31.—William Lewis
Corrigan, a brother of Archbishop Cor
rigan, was taken to the insane pavilion
at Bellevue hospital yesterday. An
application will be made for his com
mittal to a private retreat for the in
sane. Mr. Corrigan, who is 55 years
old, has had periodical fits of insanity
, for the last twenty years. Ten months
* ago be was liberated from the insane
hospital at Mount Morris, N. J.. but
his brother and friends think that he
has had a relapse and that he needs be
ing taken care of. He will probably
i be Bent to an institution at White
stone, L. I.
DISCIPLINE.
My Ufa is full of scentsd fruit*,
My garden bloom* with itook* and
dove*; 1
Vet o’er the wall my fancy (hoot*,
1 And hankor* after harsher love*. i
Ah 1 why— my foolish heaft replues—
Was I not housed within a waste) 1
rhese velvet flowers and syrup vine*
# Are sweet, but are not to my taste.
A howling moor, a wattled hut,
A piercing smoke of sodden peat, 1
The savor of a russet nut,
Would mako my weary pulses beat. J
O stupid brain that blindly swerves!
O heart that strives not, nor endures!
Sinoe flowers are hardships to your nerves,
Thank heaven a gardou-lot is yours I '
—Edmund Oosse, in the Athomeum.
SAM’S STRATEGY.
Sho was very pretty, this bright*
eyed New England damsel. Fred '
Jones had loved hot- over slnoo they
were ohildren together, and Captain
Logan, who had oomo down to spend
a few weeks with his cousins, the
Kendricks, had become so fond of thoso
bright blue eyes and golden hair that
he prolonged hla visit
“Ton my word, she’s a regular
beauty, " said the captain, staring
through the tiny window pauos at the
retreating llguro oi Miss iirown.
Fred Jones looked quickly up at
him, as if he would havo liked to
knook him over in the fireplace, but
ho refrained from any suck demonstra
tion.
••A boauty, ” went on tho captain,
“and It’s a thousand pities sho should
be wasted on any of the country
bumpkins who vegetate among these
wildernesses, Ham, you young villain,
are those boots of mine blucked ybtP"
Farmer Kendrick's hired boy, who
had just como in to warm his purple
hands ut tho merry red blaze, looked
glum.
“No, they ain’t," said Sam., crossly.
“Well, what's the reason?”
“’Cause I ain’t, ’ad tlm'o.”
' 'See you find tlmo, then, and that
quick, too,” said tho cuptain. And
Sam glowered nftor him us he wont
gaily up the stairs.
“Just wish 1 had the firin’, of him
out," said the boy, gloomily. "It’s
‘Sam. do this,1 and 'Sam. do that’and
‘Sam., where’s the warm watcrP* and
‘Sam., What tho deuoodo you mean by
lettin’ my fire go out?' and not a red
cent has he guv mo yet—no, nor so
much as a pleasant word. I wohdor
If ho means to stayj^ore nlway®”
The next night came—a perfeet
night ior sleighing expeditions and
rustio love-making, tho roads hard
and well packed and a glorious moon
shining down whitely, as if a rain of
silver were deluging the whole world.
“Couldn't'bo .bettor weather, ” said
the captain. ‘Sam., where are the
sleigh-bells?’’
• -Dunno, ” said Sam. • -There’s them
old jlnglers in the garret that used to
belong to Deacon Joe Kendrick that
whs in the Revolutionary war, and
there’s the two cow-bolls that Mary
Jane might scour up with ashes—”
“Pshaw!” said the Captain. “Do
you take mo for Kip Van WinkleP
There’s a pretty little string some
where, for I saw them when Mrs.
Kendrick went out day before yester
day.”
“I hain't seen nothin' on ’em, ’’ said
Sam, stolidly.
“Come, come, Sara, don’t make
yourself out any stupider than you be
by nature,” said the farmer, laughing
nevertheless, for the captain’s airs
were fast wearing out his welcome,
and he secretly sympathized with the
much abused Ham.
“I guess they’re out in the barn
chamber. You better go with him,
captain, if you expect to find ’em—
our Ham’s dreadful thick-headed when
he chooses to be."
"Como along, my fine fellow," said
the captain, collaring Sam, and march
ing him ofl! in the direction of the old
red barn. “We don't need any lan
tern in this moonlight,’ that is on*
comfort.”
“Where are the statra”’ demanded
the captain as they entered the Darn.
“Ain’t none,” said Sam, ‘it’s a lad
der.”
“Up with you, then,” said Logae,
but Sam shrunk back.
“I wouldn’t not for $50," said Sam.
“Old John Kendrick hanged himself
from tho middle beam fourteen years
ago. and folks say he stands up there
with a rope round his neck every
moonlight night."
“Stuff and nonsense!" cried the
captain in accents of contempt “You
cowardly lout stay where you are,
then, and Til go myself.”
He sprang lightly up the rounds of
the ladder and disappeared through
the trap door.
‘ -Where is it?” ho called.
“The ghost? Right under the mid
dle beam by tho windy was the place
where—”
“Blockhead! I mean the string of
Dons. -
“Look for 'em yoursolf, ” said Sam,
sulkily. "1 don’t know where they'
be, and what's more, I don’t care.”
‘Til'settle with you, my fine fellow,
when I come down,” said the captain,
threateningly, as ho groped about in
the dim light which came through a
cobweb-draped window at either end
of the barn chamber.
“Don’t hurry yourself, cap’n,” re
joined Sam. in a jeering tone.
As the captain plunged into a dark
corner there was a jingle and the
string of bells suspended from a nail,
hit him directly on the neck, so like
the grasp of death-cold fingers that he
could not but start.
»“Oh!” said the captain nervously,
“Here they aro. Catch ’em Sam!
Hallo! Where’s the trap door?.’’
And it took the worthy captain
fully sixty soconds or more to realize
that the trap door was closed and
fastened on the lower side. He
rushed to the window and throw it up
only to see Sam speeding up tips hill.
“Hal-lo-o-a!” yelled Capt Logan.
"Como back, you scoundrel!—you 11*
londlttoned lout!—you Imp of ovtl!’'
Sam turned around and oxeouted
hat peculiar gyration of the fingers in
lonneotlou with the nasal organ,
vltloh is supposed to express the ex*
romity of scorn.
"You’ll find the ladder on the barn
loor, oup'n, ” hooted this young rebel,
■an’don't bo afraid of the ghost; it's
rory harmless if you let it alone. "
1 'But, Sam—Sam, come back! I’m
o be at Mr. Brown's at 7:30.”
"Don’t worry!” bawled Sam. < 'Miss
barrio won’t wait long before Mr.
^red'll be on hand."
Tho captain danced up and down on
he floor in an eostasy of rage as Sam.
lisuppoarod over tho crest of the hilL
do know very well if ho possessed the
ungs of Boreas he could mako no one
tear.
Ho sat shivering down on tho hay.
darting nervously at tho sound of
torsos’ foot below, and thinking how
llsagrooftbly a bar of moonlight which
itrenmod down from a crack In the
•oof. rosomblod a tall, white figure
itnndlug under tho center beam, lie
sould almost funcy the rope round its
lock, l’shaw! And the captain jumped
ip again, with starting dew on h'ls
.emplos. oven In tho freezing atmos
ihoro of tho bnrii chamber.
"What Is to be done!”’ he asked
llmsolf. And echo, if eoho had had
my common sense, would huve an
iwered: ‘Just nothing at all!”
Sinn, had outwitted him. And pret
ty Carrie and l’rod Jones, with his red
suttor and great chestnut-colored
torso! Tho captain was wild at the
bought, surely ho was vanquished.
"I won’t wait another minute for
lira, ” said C’arrlo Brown, coloring up;
with tho tears in hor blue eyos. "Go
in, glrla I shall spend tho evening at
tome.’’
•Thoro's plenty of room for you
in our sleigh. Carrlo,” ooaxod her
brother. "Bessie Andrews will bo
jlad to have you along. ”
"No, she wont either, ” pouted
l!nrrie. * ‘As If I would spoil all her
!un! No; If I can’t have an escort of
my own I’ll stay at homo and mend
stockings; and I never, newer will
speak to Cnpt. Logan again. ”
Charlie Brown was on tho point of
arguing the matter with his sister,
when the door opened and in walked
Fred. Jones.
"Not gone yet, Carrie? Where is
the captain?"
"I don’t know," said Carrie, tartly,
"and I don't care. Am I Capt. Logan’s
keeper?”
■ 'Will you go with me?"'
• 'Yes, I will, ” said Carrie; hor eyes
lighting and shy smilos dimpling her
face.
"Of course” said Fred., "I oan't
expect to make myself as agreeable
as tho city captain, but—•’’
"The captain, the captain!” cried
Carrie, a little irritably. "I'm sick
of tho sound of his. name. I never
want to see him again. What a nice
new cutter this la and how easy the
wolf robes are!"
■Carrie,” whisperod Fred., as
touched up the horses and felt
nestling close to him, "is it
always P”
"Yea always," she .answered.
he
her
for
' * Jerusalem!” said Farmer Kendriok.
It was past 10 o’clock ut night, add
the old gentleman had come out as
usual before retiring to ^est, to see
that the dumb members of his family
were all safe and comfortable. "I do
believe that’s old John Kendriok's
ghost come to life again, poundin’
like all possessed on the barn chamber
floor!”
"It's me-o! It’s me-e!" bawled the
captain. “Unfasten the trap door
and let me out!”
Slowly the farmor lifted the ladder
to its place. With rhoumatlo awk
wardness ho climbed the creaking
rounds and undid the hook from its
hasp.
"How in all creation- came you
here?" ho demanded.- "Why, I
thought you was out a-slelgh rldln’
with the gals. ”
"It was all the doing of thAt'Sditl^
lain, Sam!" gasped,theJstfnrtafifi ae*.;,
tain, his tooth shattering wMh; tH
glad rage and ooU •« woa't «tw< "
sort of thing, fit loam w
place to-morrow."
- • As you please,” said tha
tp whom the gtepeot ef
guest was not unrteeeenh;^
dreadful sorry this should have hap
pened, though, and Til talk seriously
to Sam."
"So will I,” gnashed the captain.
•Til-break every bone in his body.”
But Sara had taken particular care
to go over to his grandmother’s, six
miles across the snowy fields, to
spend tho night, and the only person
the captain saw was old Mrs. Ken*
drick sitting by the kitchen fire.
"You’ve lost your chance; aap*
tain, ” said she, good humoredly. -
■■Dorcas Smith has just gone by on
her way home from tho sleighing
party and she says Fred Jones brought
Carrie Brown in his new cutter, and
they’re engaged.’’
The captain left next day, and Mrs.
Fred Jones has never seen him since.
And when the affair came off Sam got
a pleco of wedding cake big enough
to give him the dyspepsia for a week.
—Boston News.
Endowment Order Tliat Won’t Lut*
Mrs. Hides—Do you and your hus
band belong to one of the mutual so*
cleties?
Mrs. Dix—No; what gave you. that
idea?
Mrs. Hicks—Husband said he
thought you were charter members ot
a mutual admiration society.—New
York Horald.
A Queer View ot It.
| “He is a very sick man.”
“Yes, but the fact that he hangs on
so long is favorable to his recovery.n
“I think the contrary, He grnsrs
weaker every day, and the longer'he
i lives the greater chance there is ol his
I dying.”—New York Press.
